Tagged: coal

Italian insurance giant Generali announced that it will divest €2 billion from coal as part of its new climate change strategy. The company will also offer more products with environmental value. The coal divestment...

Ireland’s government has announced plans to invest €22 billion to transition the country to a low carbon and climate resilient society with nearly zero emissions by the middle of the century. According to Ireland’s...

Danish beer giant Carlsberg is taking concrete steps towards eliminating coal by 2022. Last year it stopped using coal at nine breweries in China and also converted its Falkenberg brewery to 100 per cent...

While less new coal-fired power plants are now being built in China and India, the planned expansion in the use of coal in fast-growing emerging economies, such as Turkey, Indonesia and Vietnam, will in...

Overall carbon emissions would be reduced if carbon pricing is announced in a strong, clear and credible manner, according to a new study. These findings overturn the assumption that carbon reduction policies could in...

U.S. president Donald Trump is taking steps to repeal his predecessor’s climate policy measures as part of his efforts to promote the use of oil, gas and “beautiful, clean coal”. His energy ministry plans...

The Danish company DONG Energy is changing its name to Ørsted to reflect its strategic transformation from black to green energy. It divested its upstream oil and gas business last week. DONG Energy announced...

AXA Investment Managers has announced that it will divest from companies involved in the coal sector. Its parent company AXA already divested from coal in 2015. AXA Investment Managers will divest from companies that...

The number of coal-fired power plants under development is plunging worldwide, according to a new report from three prominent environmental organisations. Their findings renew hope that the 2°C climate target is ‘within feasible reach’....

Columbia University will divest from companies that derive more than 35 per cent of their revenue from thermal coal production in an effort to accelerate society’s move away from coal-fired electricity. Columbia University in...

City officials have created a new environmental police squad in an effort to tackle Beijing’s persistent smog problems. The city was under an orange alert last week, the second-highest warning level in China’s four-tiered...

Canada’s environment minister has pledged to phase out the use of coal-fired electricity by 2030. The announcement comes just weeks after the government announced plans to implement a carbon tax. While environmentalists are gearing...

Sources close to Donald Trump’s campaign have indicated that a climate change sceptic with ties to the pro-carbon Koch brothers will head the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump has threatened to walk away from the...

Despite solid economic growth, global carbon emissions have remained nearly stable for the past three years. Decreased coal use in China is the main reason behind the slowdown. But America’s future climate policy will...

300 million children around the world live in areas with levels of outdoor air pollution that are six or more times higher than international guidelines. Air pollution harms the development of children’s lungs, brains...

A rights advocacy group has accused the World Bank of secretly funding high-risk energy, agribusiness and mining projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America, in brazen disrespect of its own environmental and social requirements....

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Peter E. Merian used to be Director of the Basler Börse and CEO Bank Sarasin, Board Member of National Zeitung and Basler Nachrichten AG and founding member of the Global Environmental Society.

Lord Anthony St John of Bletso is a qualified solicitor and Member of Board, Rados International. Former Vice President of Business Development of OCRA, consultant to Merrill Lynch, director of WMRC plc and Pecaso Ltd. and Non-Executive Director of Regal Petroleum, Lord Anthony is currently an extra Lord-in-Waiting to HM The Queen. Since 1997 to the present he has sat on the Member of Lords EU Select Committee A. He is a spokesman on African affairs, deregulation, financial services and information technology. President of Friends of South Africaand used to be Iegal advisor for Shell in South Africa.

Dr. Betrand Piccard is wellknown for the first ever non-stop balloon flight around the world. Doctor of psychiatry and psychotherapy, President of Solar Impulse, which aims to fly around the world in a solar driven aircraft without producing any polluting emissions, Bertrand hopes to draw the public’s attention to the inevitable changes needed to ensure our planet’s future energy resources and ecology and to give environmental protection a positive and stimulating image.

Dr. Marcelo Cavalho de Andrade is Doctor of Medicine and non-executive Chairman of Pró-Natura international, the first international environmental organization that manages sustainable development and conservation projects funded by international organizations, governments and the private sector in South and Central America, Africa and Asia. Marcelo has been appointed President of ECA –Earth Counsil Alliance a non-profit organization, created by Maurice Strong.